Following is a report prepared by The Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies’ "Study Group on a New Israeli Strategy Toward 2000." The main substantive ideas in this paper emerge from a discussion in which prominent opinion makers, including Richard Perle, James Colbert, Charles Fairbanks, Jr., Douglas Feith, Robert Loewenberg, David Wurmser, and Meyrav Wurmser participated. The report, entitled "A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm," is the framework for a series of follow-up reports on strategy....

.....Participants in the Study Group on "A New Israeli Strategy Toward 2000:"

IASPS: Institute for Advanced Strategic & Political Studies• 1996. Wrote the first report advocating the overthrow of Saddam.• Perle delivered it in person to the new Israeli prime minister.• "A Jerusalem-based think tank with an office in Washington, D.C."

"July 7, 1996: ‘A Clean Break’ Outlines New Middle East Strategy for Israel
Richard Perle. [Source: Public domain] The Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies, an Israeli think tank, publishes a paper entitled “A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm.” [Chicago Sun-Times, 3/6/2003] Lead author Richard Perle will later become chairman of President Bush’s influential Defense Policy Board. Several other co-authors will hold key positions in Washington after Bush’s election. In the paper, Perle and his co-authors advise the new, right wing Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu to make a complete break with the past by adopting a strategy “based on an entirely new intellectual foundation, one that restores strategic initiative and provides the nation the room to engage every possible energy on rebuilding Zionism. ...” The first step is to be the removal of Saddam Hussein in Iraq. A war with Iraq will destabilize the entire Middle East, allowing governments in Syria, Iran, Lebanon, and other countries to be replaced. “Israel will not only contain its foes; it will transcend them,” the paper concludes [Guardian, 9/3/2002] , citing the original paper at [Studies, 7/8/1996] . Perle will be instrumental is moving Bush’s US policy toward war with Iraq after the 9/11 attacks. "